Biography of Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic, famous for his inspirational speeches, was born without limbs in his body. On the morning of my birth, Dad was beside her and could see my shoulder had no arm. He nearly fainted and vomited, and the nurse had to take him out of the room. I had phocemelia, no limbs, and there was no medical explanation. It wasn’t genetic and it wasn't thalidomide. They said I would be a vegetable.

My mum said, “Take him away — I don’t want to see him.” 

But my dad comforted her and said, “He’s beautiful.” They took me home, but it took three to four months for my mother to come to terms with it.

However, instead of letting his disability deter his everyday life, he took it as a challenge, using it to change millions of lives with the same faith that kept him going. As a child of ten, he always wondered why he was different from others, and decided to drown himself since he saw no purpose to his living. However, he stopped himself in time, thinking of his loving parents and how much it would hurt them to see him dead. 

Nick prayed very hard that God would give him arms and legs, and initially told God that, if his prayer remained unanswered, Nick would not praise him indefinitely. However, a key turning point in his faith came when his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with a severe disability. Vujicic realized he wasn't unique in his struggles and began to embrace his lack of limbs. After this, Nick realized his accomplishments could inspire others and become grateful for his life.Nick gradually figured out how to live a full life without limbs, adapting many of the daily skills limbed people accomplish without thinking. Nick writes with two toes on his left foot and a special grip that slid onto his big toe. He knows how to use a computer and can type up to 45 words per minute using the "heel and toe" method. He has also learned to throw tennis balls, play drum pedals, get a glass of water, comb his hair, brush his teeth, answer the phone and shave, in addition to participating in golf, swimming, and even sky-diving

From then on, there was no looking back for this young man, who now has founded his own organization, called ‘Life Without Limbs’. He has released motivational films, like 'Life's Greater Purpose' and 'Biography of a Determined Man of Faith'. He has also written a book titled 'Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life'. This speaker has even acted in a short film, ‘The Butterfly Circus’, earning the film three awards, and bagging one himself, for his brilliant portrayal of a man very much like himself, who is given a second chance to love himself. He is a devout Christian, believing that God loves everyone equally, and has taken it upon himself to spread the message to everyone around the world

 

 

Link to watch his video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYuVx2LU5QM

Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3607348/bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vujicic
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/nick-vujicic-6151.php
http://www.today.com/health/born-without-limbs-star-nick-vujicic-lives-courage-t26796                                                                           

Narrative Text and Dialogue

The Lake of Color

Narrative Text:

Long long ago, there was a kingdom in West Java. The kingdom was ruled by a king named His Majesty Prabu. Prabu was a kind and wise king. But it was a pity that Prabu and his queen hadn't got any children. The queen often cried. That was why Prabu went to the jungle. There he prayed to God every day, begging for a child.
A few months later, the queen got pregnant. Nine months later, a princess was born. Prabu and Queen loved their beautiful daughter so much. They gave whatever she wanted. It made Princess turn into a very spoiled girl.
One day, the princess celebrated her 17 th birthday party. Many people gathered in the palace. Then, Prabu took out a necklace which was made from gold and jewel. "My beloved daughter, today I give you this necklace. Please, wear this necklace," said Prabu. "I don't want to wear it! It's ugly!" shouted the princess. Then she threw the necklace. The beautiful necklace was broken. The gold and jewels were spread out on the floor. Everybody couldn't say anything. They never thought that their beloved princess would do that cruel thing. In their silence, people heard thequeen crying. Every woman felt sad and began crying, too. Then, everybody was crying.
Suddenly, from the underground, a spring emerged. It made a pool of water. Soon, the place became a big lake. The lake finally sank the kingdom. Nowadays, people called the lake " Telaga Warna". It means "Lake of Color". On a bright day, the lake is full of color. These colors come from shadows of forest, plants, flowers, and sky around the lake. But some people said that the colors are from the princess's necklace, which spreads at the bottom of the lake.

( http://mahir-msoffice.blogspot.co.id/2016/04/soal-narrative-teks-telaga-warna.html )

Dialogue:

Long time ago there was a kingdom in West Java. The kingdom was ruled by king. People called their king His Majesty Prabu. Prabu was kind and wise king. No wonder if that country was prosperous. There’s no hunger in this kingdom.
It was very happy condition. But it was pity that prabu and his queen hadn’t got any children. It made the royal couple was very sad. Some old man who was respected by Prabu suggested the king to adopt a child. But Prabu and the Queen didn’t agree.

Old man : “Prabu, I suggest you adopt a child. Because you haven’t child to change you rule the king when you have old.”
King : “I don’t agree with your suggest!”
Old man : “Why you don’t agree Prabu? All people in this kingdom just want you have a child who will replace you when you get older.”
King : “Because for us, our own daughter or son is better than adopted children. Don't you think like that, my wife?”
Queen : “Yes, I think so. Our own daughter or son is better than adopted children.”

The Queen was very sad. She often cried. That was why Prabu decided to go. He went to the jungle. There he prayed to God. Everyday he begged for a child.

King : “Ohh my God. Please, give me and my wife a child. I will promise to you, if you give me a child I will love them.”

His dream comes true. A few months later, the queen got pregnant. All people in the kingdom felt happy. They sent many presents to the palace to express their happiness.

People in the Kingdom : “I bring this presents to you Your Majesty. This is the express from me. I feel happy if Queen get pregnant.”
King : “Thanks a lot.”

Nine months later a princess was born. People sent their presents again as a gift to a little princess. This baby grew as a beautiful teenager then.

People in the Kingdom: “Ohh.. How beautiful you are.”
Queen : “Thank you .”
People in the Kingdom : “Here, I bring it for your beautiful baby.”
King : “Thank you very much. I accept your presents.”

Prabu and Queen love their daughter so much. They gave everything she wanted. It made Princess a very spoiled girl. Even though the princess behaved badly, her parents loved her, so did the people in that kingdom.
Day by day, the princess grew more beautiful. No girls couldn’t compare with her. In a few days, Princess would be 17 years old. So, people of that palace. They bought many presents for her. Their presents gift were very beautiful. Prabu collected the presents. There really many presents. Then Prabu stored them in building. Sometimes he could take them to give to his people.

People in the Kingdom: “Your majesty Prabu, this is I bring a present to you beautiful daughter. I’m sorry I just can give your daughter like this. Please accept my present.”
King : “I will accept your present. Thank you for this present.”
Prabu only took some gold and jewels. Then he brought them to the gold smith.
King : “Please make a beautiful necklace for my daughter.”
Goldsmith : “My pleasure, Your Majesty.”
The goldsmith worked with all his heart and his ability. He wanted to create the most beautiful necklace in the word because he loved the princess.
Goldsmith : “This is the beautiful necklace. I make it with my heart and my ability. I hope you happy with this necklace.”
King : “Ohh… how beautiful this necklace.”

The birthday came. People gathered in the palace field. When Prabu and Queen appeared, people welcomed them happily. Prabu and his wife waved to their beloved people.
Cheers were louder and louder when the princess appeared with her fabulous pretty face. Everybody admired her beauty. Prabu got up from his chair. A man gave him a small and glamorous pillow. A wonder full necklace was on it. Prabu took that necklace.

King : “My beloved daughter, today I give this necklace to you. This necklace is gift from all people in this country. They love you so much. They presented it for you to express their happiness, because you have growing to a women. Please wear this necklace.”
Princess accepted the necklace. She looked at the necklace in a glance.
Princess : “I don’t want to accept it! It’s ugly!”

Then she threw the necklace. The beautiful necklace was broken. The gold and jewels were spread out on the floor.
Everybody couldn’t say anything. They never thought that their beloved princess would did that cruel thing. Nobody spoke. In their silence people heard the queen crying. Than everybody was crying.
Then there was a miracle. Earth was crying. Suddenly, from the underground, a storm emerged. It made a pool of water. The place was getting full. Soon place became a big lake. The lake sank all of the kingdom.
Nowadays, the water on that lake is not as full as before. There is only a small lake now. People called the lake “Talaga Warna”. It is mean “Lake of Color”. It’s located in the peak, West Java. On a bright day, the lake is full of color. So beautiful and amazing. These colors come from shadows of forest, plants, flowers, and sky around the lake. But some people said that the color are from the princess’s necklace, which spreads at the bottom of the lake.

(  http://www.tutorialbahasainggris.com/contoh-naskah-drama-bahasa-inggris-tentang-legenda.html )

By :
- ANGELA GABRIELLA (03)
- M. HAYKAL ALDJOEFRY (25)
- ARIA ZAKKI (05)

ANNOUNCEMENT

                For all student in grade 10 until grade 12 of SMAN 3 Bandung. For those who have a good voice or just want to take some fun. You are invited to join a singing competition that will be held on August, 17^th 2016 to celebrate Indonesian Independence Day.

                Registration will be held on 10^th – 15^th August at Aula Baru. Don’t miss it! Because the first place of the competition will get some reward. For more information you can contact me on LINE at @oliviangelaa.Video

My Unforgetable Memories

            In our life there are many memories. Happy memories, sad memories, but it made our life be colorful. And certainly, one of that memories will be unforgettable. And now, I want to share about one of my unforgetable memory. That is when I first met my last crush. When I was in Junior High School in grade 8.

Every Sunday I always go to church. In my churh, there are a teen class or we usually called that JC (Junior Church). I have some friends and we called our group “ciwi-ciwi barsi”. We are always sitting in the front row. Unconsciously, lately I was fascinated with someone who play a keyboard. He is a famous guy in our church. He wear a glasses and for me it makes him cool.

So, in the next day I decided to contact his old brother to know some facts about him. I chosen to contact his brother via ask.fm. Because, when 2014 ask.fm is a popular app. But, I ask with anonymously.  I shocked when he aswered my question because he said, “contact me via line and I will inform you some facts about my young brother” So with worried feeling I contact him. He is older by two years with me so I called him “koko” because he is a Chinese. So in that day I spent my time with him via line. I think he is a good boy and he has a sense of humor same with me. And unconsciously, topic of our chat was changed. We didn’t talk about the facts about his young brother again, but we told about ourself. And from that day, I became a friend with him. We was chatting from morning till night. He made my life colorful because sometimes he made a jokes. In night he likes to helped me to did my homeworks.

Along the time, we are be closer and we was knowing about ourself further. One day he revealed his feeling to me. But, I said “I wont answering that question now because I  not want to have some a relationship now.” He is a wise guy so he understood my choice. After that, our relationship not changed and it’s still closer.

Uluwatu, Bali

Hello! Welcome Back! Now, I want to share about my interesting place.

Most people of Indonesia certainly know this place. Yup, that’s Uluwatu! Uluwatu is located in Bali. When you want to entry this place you must pay for ticket. For Indonesian you must pay Rp. 15.000 and for tourist must pay Rp. 20.000 . If you wear a short pants, in there you can borrow a  shawl and you can tied it to your waist.

When you roaming along the road, you can see a small forest and many monkeys. The local villagers believed if monkeys can guard the temple from band influences. You are allowed to feed the monkeys. You can give they are a banana. But, you must be careful because they can take your stuff.

In Uluwatu Temple too you can see Kurung Temple, but visitors can’t entry the temple. Because only Hindunism can entry this place to pray or worship.

At 6 p.m. you will watch for Kecak Dance which performed by local villagers. The story is about Ramayana. When you watch the Kecak Dance, you will also see the beautiful panorama of sunset in Uluwatu.

Questions!

1. How much is the different price for indoesian and tourist?

    A. Rp. 10.000,00

    B. Rp, 15.000,00

    C. Rp. 5.000,00

    D. Rp. 50.000,00

    E. Rp. 500,00

2. What a kind of pet you will see along the road?

     A. Cow

     B. Snake

     C. Monkey

     D.Horse

     E. Bird

3. Who are can entry the Kurung Temple?

     A. Buddhism

     B. Hindunism

     C. Christian

     D. Muslim

     E. All people can entry that place

4. What are they doing in Kurung Temple?

     A. Perfoming a Kecak Dance

     B. Seeing a sunset

     C. Buying a souvenir

     D. Pray and worship

     E. Seeing a lot of monkeys

5. When you can watch for a kecak dance?

     A. At 6.00 p.m.

     B. At 6.00 a.m.

     C. At 6.06 p.m.

     D. At 5.00 p.m.

     E. At 7.00 p.m. 

6. What is the main idea of paragraph two?

     A. You can borrow a shawl in there

     B. You must protect your stuff when roaming along the road

     C. You can watch a Kecak Dance which performed by local villagers

     D. You can see the beautiful sunset in Uluwatu

     E.  You must pay for a ticket to entry the temple

MEGANTARA 2016

On September, 10 2016, SMAN 3 Bandung held a festival budaya or we can called that MEGANTARA. On 8:00 a.m students of SMAN 3 Bandung surrounded Belitung Street, Merdeka Street, and Sumatra Street. We were surprised when children of kindergarten came and they wore cute costume. There are also attractions of Reog Ponorogo as one of the Indonesian culture.

Megantara started on 11:30 a.m with the performance of rampak kendang, ukm bali, band, classical music, angklung, and many more. On 3:00 p.m. Lapangan Bali started crowded because many visitors came. In Megantara we also met our friends in Junior High School. The next event is fashion show used traditional clothes of Indonesia. Announcement of the winner of the fashion show was announced by the mayor of Bandung Mr. Ridwan Kamil or we usually calledhim Kang Emil. The winner of the fashion show is Hafizh who wore traditional clothes of Papua.

On 6:00 p.m  we were surprised by the performance of T'ST. The show told about Indonesian culture is not lose powerful than the modern culture. The visitors was interesting with their performance because they have a good acting.

On 7 p.m. we watched the perfomance of The Changcuters. Their performance makes the visitors excited and danced. They sang many songs are Gila-Gilaan, Pria Idaman Wanitan, Hijrah ke London, etc. The last performance is RAN. RAN is guest star who awaited from Megantara. Charisma of three guys made the their fans especially women screamed. They also invited one lucky lady to sang with them and it made the visitors jealous. They sang Hanya Untukmu, Jadi Gila, Begitu Saja, Dekat di Hati, Kulakukan Semua Untukmu, Pandangan Pertama, etc.

That day is a very interesting for me. And I can’t wait to festival budaya next year. See you next year!

Last Saturday

               On August, 19^th 2016 I’m not going to school. Because, my grandmother celebrated her birthday. So, I’m not participated event in my school.

                In my second articles, I want to tell you about my grandmother’s birthday party. I was going to my aunt’s house at 5 a.m. to make up. At 10 a.m. me and my family were going to Wisma Resko Nugraha. First we were doing misa. Because my grandmother is catholic. I’m not too understand about misa because I’m Christian, but I still followed the event. Me and my family was wearing kebaya in the same colour. That colour is red. After we were doing misa, we took some photo. That took a long time because my grandmother had 8 daughters and 2 sons.

                In my grandmother’s birthday party, our family presented sings and zumba dance. Our family was preparing singing performance to 3 months and zumba dance was preparing 2 days before the party. Although, we just exercised that to 2 times, we still enjoyed the dance. When we was performing a zumba dance the guests followed our dance. And that made we’re very happy.

                That party finished at 5 p.m. and we’re very tired. So, me and my family went to our home. When we arrived at home, we directly took a bath and slept. Although, that day made we are very tired, but I was very happy because that day is a special moment when my family from my grandmother is complete. So I can met my cousing from Kalimantan, Jakarta, and many more.

That’s all for my second articles. Hope you like that!

It's Me!

Hellooo!!

Welcome to my blog. It’s my second blog. You can find my first blog on: morstay.blogspot.com . In my first blog, I’m sharing all about health. Why did I choose health topic in my first blog? You will know after you have finished reading my story.

So, Let me introduce my self J

My name is Angela Gabriella. You can called me Angel, or anything what you want. I was born in Bandung on March, 26^th March 2001. I’m 15 years old now, although some people can’t believe that because some people said I look like college student. It hurts hahaha.

I’m Indonesian. I’ve been living in Bandung on Ujungberung Street. Maybe someone of you never hear this place. Because, Ujungberung Street is too far from city center.

I was finishing my study in 7 Junior High School and now I study in 3 Sunior High School. For your information, 3 SHS is a popular school in my city and I’m very proud to be a part of 3 SHS.

I am only child in my family. Sometimes I felt lonely in my home. Because, I just with my mother in my home. My father is a busy man. I just meet him in the morning when he takes me to school. Because of that, I’m  closer with my mother than my father. My father and I aren’t have a good communication.

My hobby is listening some music, singing, and swimming. But, i’ve rarely doing swim because of my business in school. You know since I be a student of Senior High School. I spend my time to study, doing homeworks, and work in group. But, I still can doing one of my hobby. Yup, that’s singing. I love to sing when I take a bath. I can spend a long time in my bathroom to sing some songs hehehe. I love singing songs of: Raisa, Kahitna, HiVi, and many more.

When I have holiday, I spend my time to watch some Korean dramas. I was watching many Korean drama like Descendants of the Sun, The Heirs, Blood, Cheese in the Trap, High School Love on, Sassy GO GO, and many more. My favorite actors are Song Joong Ki, Kim Woo Bin, Ahn Jae Hyun, and Kim Bum. Sometimes, I watched China dramas too.

Maybe, that’s enough to you know about my self! Nice to share with you all!